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Upload speed = A ok

Download speed = A ok

computer = ASUS = A ok

PING = ~200 = NOT OK

One day, my PING randomly just went to hell, and ever since, it's been nothing but hell. I did everything from resetting the router and modem to just bypassing the router and nothing seems to fix this horrific lag.

My router/modem are both quite a few years old. I think they pretty much just kind of died at this point. I don't think it's really an issue with my ISP. Any thoughts?
 
What games are you attempting to play? Post your upload/download speed as well.
 
I race online with that many ms of ping, my competitors nor I have a problem with it.

You can ping your router and modem, you can do the same with the server in question and also see the hops your ping takes to get there.
 
Is your ISP throttling you because you've gone over your contracted usage?
 
depends on the game. For a lot of them, you can reroute the connection to the nearest server and knock off 100 ms

also if you use wifi router, try a direct ethernet cable instead
 
What games are you attempting to play? Post your upload/download speed as well.

League of legends, starcraft, CS GO, all games that require X < 60 ping.

Download speed is over 20 Mbp/s and upload is a healthy ~4 Mbp/s

It's a pure latency issue.
 
League of legends, starcraft, CS GO, all games that require X < 60 ping.

Download speed is over 20 Mbp/s and upload is a healthy ~4 Mbp/s

It's a pure latency issue.

You may want to do a trace route - to see how many hops are between you and the server you're trying to reach, and see if there may be a sick router somewhere in the mix. It may be a throttling issue by your ISP as well so that's someplace to start. If you had an idea of an earlier trace route and knew generally how many hops and what your ping was you'd have a way to compare but...

Best of luck!

Open a command window (CMD)

syntax:

tracert google.com (or the domain name you want to try and reach)
or
tracert x.x.x.x (the x's are an IPv4 IP address such as 68.55.22.10 <-- I just made that IP up so don't use that).
 
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